Just out of curiosity
Has anyone ever heard of the Deer Guys? My friends dad does all kinds of cool stuff, seen some of there footage I must admit it is pretty awesome.
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I posted several times that I've had free access to a gun since I was five years old... trained to the letter on the proper use and dangers of a firearm. This was because my dad worked out of town and only came home one weekends. We were had a reoccuring poisonous snake problem and my moms terrible fear of guns. By the time I was 12 I was seen hunting by myself frequently... I now find it odd that no one ever said a word. I had a couple of cousins doing pretty much the same time....
So I was wondering when did completely understand the potential dangers of improper handling of a firearm and when was your first solo hunting trip....0 -
quote:Originally posted by tobefree
I posted several times that I've had free access to a gun since I was five years old... trained to the letter on the proper use and dangers of a firearm. This was because my dad worked out of town and only came home one weekends. We were had a reoccuring poisonous snake problem and my moms terrible fear of guns. By the time I was 12 I was seen hunting by myself frequently... I now find it odd that no one ever said a word. I had a couple of cousins doing pretty much the same time....
So I was wondering when did completely understand the potential dangers of improper handling of a firearm and when was your first solo hunting trip....
after I shot myself in the foot with a bb gun when I was 10.0 -
Well that should do it for most people I guess. Ouch!!! 0 -
...well, being that my first "real" gun was acquired at age 5 given to me by my Dad (R.I.P); that as I remember was the beggining of my firearms "training".
...Though it was several years later before I was allowed to get "out of sight" with that shotgun, I don't remember exactly when that was. I do know I was hunting by myself at age 10 though.
...To NOT teach your kids about guns/gun safety, whether they are going to become an active shooter or not, is just inviting trouble for them or someone else at some point...[;)]
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Colt how old before you completely understood the danger??? 0 -
...ah man...THAT, was a LONG time ago![8D]
...When Dad gave me the shotgun (age 5) and we went outside with it, and he popped a bird down with it. Dad then walked up pretty close to the bird and told me to "keep an eye on it"...he shot the bird and and it pretty much dissappeared; and he told me "see, that's what a gun can do", or something along those lines.
...I remember that very clearly, so....after that little lesson I realized guns were not to be "played" with...[;)]0 -
That is odd that is nearly thsame thing my dad did too.... @ 5 I knew what dead was and that it could happen to me my mom, my brothers, even my dad if I messed up.... 0 -
Hunting (period, solo, don't matter) didn't happen till I was a teenager, but when I was 4 or 5, my grandpa took me out to the "back 40", put a milk jug full of water on a fence post, and shot it with something big and impressive - probably a shotgun thinking back.
That put some instant respect for a firearm in me.
My daughter is 6 now, and as soon as we are both free on a weekend, I'll be takign her up to the local range for the same lesson.0 -
...maybe a lot of "good" Dad's are like that ([^]), yea they are.
...I don't think seeing a hole in a piece of paper would have had the same effect that seeing the bird "dissappear" had, no way...[;)]0 -
Dad was militant when it came to gun safety. I think I had a handle on it by the time I was about six or seven. I started hunting bunnies and phesies by my self/with the dog at the age of twelve. 0 -
My experience mirrors tobefree. I grew up in the country and for as long as I can remember there was always a loaded 12 ga. in the closet by the back door and a loaded handgun in my Dad's dresser. They were there for a reason and I was taught respect for firearms and firearm safety from very early on.
I started bow hunting at age 8 and by age 13, I had access to a .22 rifle and 20 ga. shotgun for hunting and target shooting without needing permission.
I guess I first really became aware of the potential dangers of improper handling of firearms around age 6. A friend of mine would take me to his Church's youth activities. As this was 40+ years ago it was a different world than today. About 2-3 times a year, the men of the Church would take all the kids to the range for a gun safety class and shooting instruction (with parent's permission)
The first of these classes I attended, the instructor filled several
Milk Cartons with colored water and shot them with a 12 ga. It was a lesson I never forget and used when teaching my own sons about gun safety.0 -
I was mostly raised by my retired Grandparents and we traveled alot, Grandpa had a gun but I never knew it. He did some time in the Army, and Merchant Marines, also a Security Guard at Ford, got layed off then rehired as Mr. Ford's BodyGuard and did some driving at the test track, then retired and Bought a Bar in Florence Wi. But for some reason never taught me about Guns, (I was a real Hellion as a child). He did however tell me all about the Adventures of Ivanhoe and other Knights. And told me many tales of early America and the Old West. I remember watching westerns with him and him telling me how most men were killed in ambushes, not dramatic street duals. Before joining the Army (Where I trained on almost all US small arms and couple foreign) my only EXP with Guns was when one of my Aunts took me to the police range to shoot her Revolver and once went to Deer Camp with my Cousins before Season to scout and target shoot. I've never been hunting for food, and would like to try it, doubt i'd ever go on a paid hunt. 0 -
I must have been 3 or 4 when my Pop took my brother and I out shooting for the first time. He put out a melon that was about the same size as my head. He explaned that your head was alot like a melon, hard on the out side but soft on the inside. Then he shot it at close range with a 12 ga. I will never forget the way that melon exploded or the thought that guns will kill if used the wrong way.
As a young boy we had loaded guns all over the house and every room had a gun rack. I knew not to touch them, not because I was afraid of the guns, I was afriad of what my Pop would do to me if he found out. And he found out everything.
I started going hunting with my Pop by the age of 4, thats when he tought field field craft and tracking, I would carry a toy gun. By the age of 6 I upgraded to having a BB Gun in the field and I was allowed to take small birds and lizards. I got my hunting license on my 10th birthday and we went rabbit hunting to celebrate. When we would go out we would seperate, Pop had been teahing me about field craft for 6 years so he knew I would be OK. My Pop stopped hunting when I turned 16, he was 68 and couldn't walk around much with his bad back. He said that he could quit because I could drive.
I'm now teaching my 6 year old daughter the same way. She carries a toy gun when we go out and I teach her field craft and how to track. I have done the same melon trick and she loves to shoot my .22's. I also love to tell her great stories about my Pop as she never had the chance to meet him, he died 3 years before she was born.0 -
I can't remember not knowing guns can be dangerous. Much like I can't remember not knowing a mama hog or a crosscut saw can be dangerous. When and where I grew up it was just part of life, like learning to tie your shoes or eating with a fork and knife. Nobody ever made a deal or formal training about it. 0 -
[8D]I hunted ground squirrels and Coyotes in the late '40's when I was 6 yrs old--
----IN California--
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Did not hunt on my own, or with a friend, until I could drive. We hunted rabbits over beagles. 0 -
Got my first shotgun when I was 9. I started hunting by myself at age 10. I began loading my own ammo when I was 12.
When I was in grammar school back in the 50s I would take my shotgun or rifle to school with me on Friday's sometimes if I was going to spend the weekend with a friend to go hunting. Or my friends would bring their guns to school if they were going to stay with me or someone else over the weekend hunting also. The teachers would have us put our guns in the cloak room (they called them cloak rooms back then instead of closets) and no one gave it a second thought. Of course that was in East Tennessee over a half century ago where people didn't go around shooting each other just for the hell of it.
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Like JamesRK, guns were just there when I was a kid. However, there were no handguns; just rifles and shotguns. 0 -
at nine is when i got my .410 but 11yrs old was when i hunted behind our house on 160ac by myself,i was trusted at 11 to go get my gun and shells,5 being the limit on shells,and had to be home by dark thirty,or when my father blew the horn on the 72 ford trk and i had not better be out of ear shot when he sounded it off,[:D] 0 -
I grew up on a farm in Western Pa, but my Dad never owned a gun. He fought in Korea and never touched a gun again until I wanted to start hunting. He bought me a 12 gauge pump, loaded it with buckshot, and shot a hole through the barn wall to show me what damage it could do. And he left that hole there to remind me. Then he walked me through how to load, unload, and aim it. Then he never touched it or another gun again. He took me hunting whenever I wanted but he never hunted, just took me and walked around in the woods with me. When I got my first deer he showed me how to dress it, but he never killed an animal. He also never talked about Korea, but when I decided to enlist in the Army he said: "It is no fun killing and watching your friends die." But he signed for me to enlist at 17 and he died of cancer 9 months later. 0 -
I grew up in the hill country around Austin, Texas. Water, horses, rattlers, dillos, horny toads, crawdaddys, and of course the old .22 long rifle my dad built out of parts.
I can definately remember being on my horse, hunting dillos with that .22 at age 9-10. I can't remember Dad specifically teaching me to shoot. I musta been young.
Nobody ever got shot(and I have two younger brothers), and we practiced muzzel safety above all else.
Seemed natural to us...0 -
Started when I was 11. Still at it at 68. 57 years. Not so long actually, not nearly enough. 0 -
Oh forgot to add, I completely understood the "dangers" involved from watching westerns as a kid. Witnessing an SSG accidently shoot himself at the range over ten years ago was pretty eye opening, but I was not surprised by the results. 0
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